Rita Ora Rocks ‘Le Grand Journal’
Rita Ora performs on ‘Le Grand Journal’.
Just when we thought that Roc Nation had gotten the memo that Rita Ora was overexposed, the label booked nevertheless an additional promotional spot for the singer. Ora visited ‘Le Grand Journal’ to complete her hit single, ‘Hot Correct Now’, and continued to force her way down our throats.
Meanwhile, Ora has but to reveal the title, release date, cover or track checklist of her upcoming debut album. In other words, all of her promotional look has been geared toward spreading her name and making buzz for her singles.
Whitney Houston duets with Jordin Sparks for ‘Sparkle’ track: Hear it here
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When Whitney Houston passed away back in February, she had already finished doing work on her final film Sparkle, a remake of a rags-to-riches flick from 1976 co-starring Jordin Sparks. That toil incorporated Houston’s final new recordings, like the duet “Celebrate,” which just surfaced this morning.
Like all the music from Sparkle, this tag-group among Houston and Sparks was created by R. Kelly, and his fingerprints are all in excess of the bubbly backing track and unfussy arrangement.
Houston is not asked to do all that a lot, but the song drives house how authoritative her voice could nonetheless be and just how much Sparks’ approach owes to Whitney’s. Give “Celebrate” a spin under.
Did you hear the “We enjoy you, Whitney” shout-out at the finish of the song? It’s a sweet gesture, and “Celebrate” feels like a fitting epitaph for Houston.
Sparkle, which was directed by Salim Akil (Jumping the Broom, TV’s The Game) and also stars Derek Luke, Mike Epps, and Cee-Lo Green, hits theaters on August 17.
Rita Ora Tweets Pic With Rihanna
For every person trying to create beef amongst Rihanna and Rita Ora, consider once more! The two Jay-Z proteges bonded at Jigga and Kanye West‘s Watch the Throne tour in London final night, with Ora tweeting a picture and even addressing the rivalry rumors.
Aside from foreign roots, exotic looks, fierce style and Jay-Z mentorship, RiRi and Rita have one thing else in typical: dodging rumors of dating Drake. (It sounds like that dude gets around!)
Ora has previously mentioned that she feels comparisons to Rihanna have been actually flattering. “I take it as a compliment, the comparison is a excellent one,” she stated. “It’s not like it is somebody I’m not a fan of, so I’m content to be compared to somebody like that. Undertaking a characteristic with her would be so cool!”
“The video clip would be kinda hot,” she added. “I’d be, like, chasing Rihanna the entire time. I’d be like come on, man, give me a shot, guy! Allow me just consider you out!’ Right after a couple of chuckles, she states, “No, I’m joking I’m quite, really significantly straight.” Indeed — she’s dating Rob Kardashian. The couple even had a double date just lately with Yeezy and Rob’s massive sis, Kim.
We’re glad to see the gals acquiring along. Now get on that duet previously, girls!
Jay-Z Explains Why Rita Ora Is a Star
Rita Ora has all the makings of a star, according to Jay-Z. The Roc Nation mogul showered praise on his 21-year-old protégé in the course of an interview with VEVO.
“You can see the prospective. When she enters the area, it adjustments,” stated Mr. Carter. “And that presence, you cannot duplicate that. Specifically at such a young age. It was just infectious to me that she loves this. She’s driven in that way.”
Even though she’s been signed to the label for two many years, it was only just lately that Jay saw her perform live. “The initial time I truly saw her on stage was at the Cartier occasion in New York City,” he stated. “To have that sort of stage presence and that kind of energy—the music went off and she nevertheless was like, much more. She nonetheless desired to go. She jumped off the stage at one particular point, dancing with the crowd, a fantastic second.”
The blonde bombshell hails from the tiny town of Prishtina, Kosovo, but grew up in London. “Being from London and all, she has that bit of Brit rock, you know, punk rock feeling to her which I enjoy.”
Rita samples the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Party and Bullshit” on her debut U.S. single “How We Do (Party).” “To have a new artist spend homage to what’s come just before them is great,” stated Hov. “I assume that is an incredible issue. You know, Biggie getting my man and from Brooklyn.”
Album Sales: Carrie Underwood stays put at No. 1, Adele gets a big Mother’s Day boost
Carrie Underwood has Blown Away the competition for a second week in a row.
The American Idol winner’s fourth album topped the Billboard 200 as soon as again this week with sales of 120,000, holding off new debuts from Silversun Pickups, Tank, Keane, and Karmin, as effectively as Mother’s Day-boosted sales from prime-selling artists like Adele and Lionel Richie.
Here’s how the Leading ten fared:
one. Carrie Underwood, Blown Away – 120,000
The nation bombshell stayed on best of the chart, dropping 55 percent from her debut sales week. After two frames, Blown Away has moved 387,000 copies. Appearances on last night’s Dancing with the Stars results show and this Sunday’s Bilboard Music Awards must help soften declines in her third week as properly.
2. Adele, 21 – 101,000
Mother’ Day proved to be a key boon for adult modern-type singers like Adele. The mom-friendly belter’s sophomore album 21 elevated by 31 percent in its 64th week, pushing its total to nearly 9.one million. 21 became the initial album because Usher’s Confessions to pass the 9 million mark — despite the fact that that disc took 70 weeks to reach the very same level. Following halt for Adele: Diamond certification!
3. Lionel Richie, Tuskegee – 71,000
Mr. Richie ticked up from no. 6 to no. 3 right after an 11 % revenue boost. The album, which spent two weeks in the top spot and features country collaborations with the likes of Jason Aldean and Shania Twain, has now sold 751,000 copies.
The Saturdays want Beyoncé, Shakira, Rihanna for supergroup
The Saturdays‘ Rochelle Wiseman has exposed her ultimate woman group lineup.
The singer exposed that Beyoncé would be her initial-alternative bandmate for the dream group and additional that she would also like newcomer Rita Ora to feature.
Speaking about who her dream girlband would contain, Wiseman informed SugarScape: “Hmm… I’d definitely place Beyoncé in there. Erm… Oh – and Shakira. Rihanna has to be in it. I really like Rita Ora at the minute so I’d stick her in too.”
Asked if she would also like to characteristic, Wiseman added: “Yeah I’d go in, maybe just for a tiny bit as some thing on the side!”
The Saturdays’ new single ’30 Days’ is offered to download now. The track comes with new B-side ‘Turn Myself In’.
When Woody Guthrie’s ‘This Land Is Your Land’ went to school
In “This Land Is Your Land: Woody Guthrie and the Journey of an American Folksong” (Running Press, $ 24), writer and Grammy Museum Executive Director Robert Santelli traces the extraordinary daily life of what is arguably America’s finest-recognized and best-loved folk song, written by America’s biggest folk troubadour.
It’s prolonged been identified that Woody Guthrie wrote the song in 1940 as his reaction to — and dissatisfaction with — Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America, which became ubiquitous during the Depression, largely from Kate Smith’s signature recording and her countless performances on reside radio broadcasts.
Amongst the several examples of cultural detective work in Santelli’s book — published in conjunction with this year’s Woody Guthrie centennial — Santelli traces a journey that culminates in the song becoming sung by Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen at a 2009 inauguration concert for President Obama. Along the way, he also answers the query: How specifically how did “This Land Is Your Land” turn out to be component of the elementary college common repertoire, wherever just about each kid in the United States can sing it — or at least, the best-known components of it — by the time they are 7?
It partly can be traced to the inclusion of “This Land Is Your Land” on a 1951 album of children’s songs named “Songs to Develop On,” the third volume in a series of children’s music released by producer Moses Asch on his new Folkways record label.
Asch, who had created records with Seeger and Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter and other folk and blues artists in New York City in the ’40s, initial met and recorded with Guthrie in 1944. He was so bowled more than by the top quality of Guthrie’s songs, which had not been captured extensively in recordings before that, that he acquired Guthrie to lay down dozens of tracks, such as “God Blessed America,” the song that eventually would come to be acknowledged as “This Land Is Your Land.”